Animal-rights protesters are barking at Hillary Rodham Clinton’s upcoming Senate fund-raiser because it’s being hosted by one of the city’s biggest fur designers, The Post has learned.

Furrier to the stars Dennis Basso – who has resorted to drastic measures to avoid anti-fur demonstrators – is sponsoring the fund-raiser Saturday for Clinton’s campaign.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which previously has slammed Basso, is planning a protest at the Clinton event, said a spokeswoman for the group.

“There is definitely going to be something,” said the spokeswoman, who would not release any details.

Basso confirmed the fund-raiser, but said he didn’t know how much would be raised, before hanging up.

The fund-raiser is said to be set for Basso’s home in Water Mill, L.I.

But that location could be a decoy because the furrier – who also lives in Manhattan – has played hide-and-seek with anti-fur protesters in the past.

In December, Basso gave PETA the slip for his “end of the century” party by renting a mansion on the East Side, rather than holding the bash at his mansion on Central Park West.

PETA was able to get to Basso last year in Aspen, Colo., when two shapely topless women disrupted his fur show by wearing only bikini bottoms and sashes, which read, “Only animals should wear fur.”

Basso – whose mink and other fur creations have gone for as much as $15,000 – in 1998 called TV personality Star Jones “a gutsy lady” for breaking what he called a decade-old anti-fur barrier on television.

The furrier has contributed $2,000 to Clinton’s Senate campaign, as well as having presented her with a half dozen cashmere and silk shawls in 1995.